-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I couldn't resist the opportunity to x-post this to the list, especially now that it makes me feel foolish for once suspecting the possibility of foul play at UUNet. My hat is off to Nat and all the folks at UUNet Technologies who share his views. Kudos. 8<------- Begin Forwarded Message ----------- From: nrh@daimajin.UU.NET (Nat Howard) Newsgroups: alt.privacy.clipper Subject: another letter to the president Date: 2 Jun 1993 19:41:01 -0400 Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA, USA Lines: 41 NNTP-Posting-Host: daimajin.uu.net Summary: dump clipper Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1993 12:49:46 EDT To: PRESIDENT@WHITEHOUSE.GOV, VICE.PRESIDENT@WHITEHOUSE.GOV From: Nat Howard <nrh> Subject: Clipper initiative of 4/16/93 Sirs, As a citizen working in the communications field, I am gravely concerned by the 4/16/93 Clipper Chip initiative. I believe that the initiative as proposed cannot accomplish its stated goals, and will, if carried out, be poisonous to American business attempts to compete in the secure communications field. Far more important is the apparent denial in the press release of our First, Second, Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendment rights: ... nor is the U.S. saying that "every American, as a matter of right, is entitled to an unbreakable commercial encryption product." I urge you to consider these actions instead: 1. Lift export controls on all cryptographic hardware and software. 2. Have the NSA work with NIST to produce a publicly-described algorithm, suitable for either hardware or software implementation, that can serve for the next 15 years as a follow-on to DES. 3. Find some fair and legal way so that all US Citizens can use, royalty-free and without other restriction, the public-key algorithms now patented by PKP. A lot of us have hopes for the human rights aspect of the Clinton-Gore ticket. Please don't let us down: withdraw, abandon, or greatly modify the Clipper Chip initiative. I emphasize that I speak here as a private citizen, and my remarks don't necessarily reflect the feelings of UUNET. 8<------- End of Forwarded Message --------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.2 iQCVAgUBLA4NhZRLcZSdHMBNAQGJjQP/Ty6YCVBsrNfmfWiuyRK/GWHvwkLBy5tE bJOUmwnyP2nD/febFSeIPSoheKEpvVNg6nZUM7BTNPAQ5SM+papyujs5NtQNbiGT TLLS55K0X+904Iszn3ROzc/QJNaQ/RSj+7vuI+yq3L9dTcOrbKNpnU/KePkISeIp toFDESkZDnY= =F+B7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Paul Ferguson | The future is now. Network Integrator | History will tell the tale; Centreville, Virginia USA | We must endure and struggle fergp@sytex.com | to shape it. Stop the Wiretap (Clipper/Capstone) Chip.